Dominique I.

Garello

Arizona State University, Tempe Campus Cell: 530-554-3855

School of Earth and Space Exploration Email: dgarello@asu.edu
P.O. BOX 876004 https://dominiquegarello.weebly.com
Tempe, AZ 85287-6004

EDUCATION
Current:
Ph.D. Geosciences- Arizona State University (estimated completion 01/2019).
Tephrostratigraphy of Pliocene drill cores from Kenya and Ethiopia, and Pleistocene exposures
in the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area, Ethiopia: Geological context for the evolution of
Australopithecus and Homo
Principal Advisors: Ramon Arrowsmith and Chris Campisano
Committee: Kaye Reed, David Feary, Axel Wittmann

Previous:
2011 B. A. Geology, University of California, Davis.
2011 B. A. Anthropology (Evolutionary track), University of California, Davis.

Training Course/ Workshops:

 Geoscience Data Analysis Short Course by Martin Trauth. UA, Tucson, AZ (2016)
 Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Workshop. ASU, Tempe, AZ (2016)
 Tephra 2014 Workshop. Portland OR. (Aug. 2014)
 GeoPRISMS Science Workshop for East Africa Rift System. New Jersey (2012)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Volunteer Lecturer, Institute of Human Origins ASU, Tempe AZ
 Historical Geology (GLG104) Laboratory: one-two hour lab, November 2016
 Historical Geology (GLG104) Laboratory: one-two hour lab, November 2014
Teaching Associate, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU, Tempe AZ
 Structural Geology (GLG310) Laboratory: two/week-3hr labs, Fall 2013
 Structural Geology (GLG310) Laboratory: two/week-3hr labs, Fall 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02/2011-07/2012
Junior specialist- UC Davis Geology Department
Working for Professor Isabel Montanez my duties included; various sample preparations,
petrographic study of fossil plant matter (image and statistical analyses), microdrilling mineral
samples from specially prepared thin sections for geochemical analysis, conodont Genus
identification, preparing organic matter samples for isotopic analysis using a high density liquid
(LST) and silver amine processing. I also worked with collaborators at the University of Dublin,
Ireland and the National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.

PUBLIC SERVICE AND EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

 Volunteer Judge for Broadmor Elementary Science Fair. Tempe, AZ. Feb. 2017
 Website maintenance and up keep for the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project
 (HSPDP) (http://hspdp.asu.edu/): providing news, upcoming events, publications and
information about the HSPDP.
 Author of Ask an Anthropologist website geology stories: Fossil Hunters, and Fossil Rocks:
How geology is used in the fossil record. (https://askananthropologist.asu.edu/explore/stories )
 Mentorship, Geology Department University of California, Davis 2011-2012
Mentored a high school student interning with Isabel Montanez

FIELD EXPERIENCE
By the end of my Ph.D. I will have completed over 5 months of fieldwork on sedimentary geology, rift
tectonics, and tephra analyses in the East African Rift. A large part of my fieldwork has involved
geologic mapping, fault identification, tephra characterization and sampling, stratigraphy, and providing
geologic support for the paleontologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists.
 3.5 weeks in Afar, Ethiopia (2018): Geologic mapping, stratigraphy, surface processes, tephra
geochemistry and basin development in the Afar Depression
 2-day Field assistant Pinacate Volcanic Field, Mexico (2016): Assisted an ASU graduate student
in geologic interpretations and mapping
 7 weeks in Afar, Ethiopia (2015): Geologic mapping, stratigraphy, surface processes, tephra
geochemistry and basin development in the Afar Depression.
 2-day Field assistant in Pinaleno Mountains, AZ (2015): Assisted an ASU graduate student in
shallow seismic survey.
 2 weeks at Lake Magadi, Kenya (2014): Scientific drilling for the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes
Drilling Project.
 8 weeks in Afar, Ethiopia (2013): Geologic mapping, stratigraphy, surface processes, tephra
geochemistry and basin development in the Afar Depression.
 2 weeks Field assistant in Utah and Nevada (2011): Assisted a UC Davis graduate student in
geologic mapping, sample collection, geologic interpretations and stratigraphic sections.

LAB EXPERIENCE
In the lab, I have experience with all aspects of tephra preparation and analysis. Preparation
techniques include sieving, acid treatment, magnetic separation, heavy liquid separation, and creating
epoxy sample mounts. I am proficient conducting wavelength-dispersive spectrometry on a JOEL JXA
8530F Hyperprobe using JOEL software and some experience with the Probe for Windows Microsoft
software.
 Tephra and feldspar sample preparations and electron microprobe analyses for the Ledi Geraru
2013, 2015, and 2018 tephra samples at ASU (2013-2018)
 Sample preparations and LA-ICP-MS analyses of HSPDP and LGRP tephra with Diana Roman
at Carnegie Institute of Washington (March and June 2017)
 Sample preparations and electron microprobe analyses of Causcasus Mountains, Azerbaijan
tephra samples for Adam Forte at ASU (2016)
 Tephra and feldspar sample preparations and electron microprobe analyses for the Hominin Sites
and Paleolakes Drilling Project at ASU (2015-2016)
 XL-30 Environmental SEM for Na-Ca-K ratios of feldspars from the Ledi Geraru 2013 tephra
samples at ASU (2013)

PUBLICATIONS
6) Braun, D. R., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Arrowsmith, J. R., Baraka, N., Campisano, C. J., Deino, A.,
DiMaggio, E., Dupont-Nivet, G., Engda, B., Feary, D. A., Garello, D., Kerfelew, Z., McPherron,
S. P., Patterson, D. B., Reeves, J. S., Thompson, J. and Reed, K. E. (in review) Oldest Oldowan
 Stone Artifacts Reveal Increases in Technological Competence Through Time. PNAS (In prep)
5) Garello, D., Deino, A., Campisano, C., Kingston, J. (in review) Geochemical characterization of
tephra from the upper Chemeron Formation (3.3-2.6 Ma), Baringo Basin, Kenya, and
correlations between outcrop and the Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi drill core. In Paleoecology,
paleoenvironments, and climate cyclicity in the central Kenya Rift Valley from 3.4-2.6 Ma:
context for hominin evolution in the Baringo Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatonlogy,
Palaeoecology Special Volume
4) Deino, A., Sier, M., Garello, D., Keller, B., Kingston, J., Scott, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., and Cohen, A.
(in review) Chronostratigraphy of the Baringo-Tugen-Barsemoi (HSPDP-BTB13-1A) Core –
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Ar/39Ar Dating, Magnetostratigraphy, Tephrostratigraphy, and Bayesian Age Modeling. (in
review) In Paleoecology, paleoenvironments, and climate cyclicity in the central Kenya Rift
Valley from 3.4-2.6 Ma: context for hominin evolution in the Baringo Basin. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatonlogy, Palaeoecology Special Volume
3) Arrowsmith, J R., DiMaggio, E. N., Garello, D. I., Villmoare, B. and Ledi Geraru Research Project
(2018): Photogrammetric model of a portion of the Lee Adoyta Basin, Afar, Ethiopia (point
cloud [122M points], orthophoto [2 cm/pix], and DEM [25 cm/pix]). Distributed by
OpenTopography. Accessed October 23, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5069/G95X271W
2) Cohen, A. S., Campisano, C., Arrowsmith, R., Asrat, A., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Feibel, C.,
Hill†, A., Johnson, R., Kingston, J., Lamb, H., Lowenstein, T., Noren, A., Olago, D., Owen, R.
B., Potts, R., Reed, K., Renaut, R., Schäbitz, F., Tiercelin, J.-J., Trauth, M. H., Wynn, J., Ivory,
S., Brady, K., O’Grady, R., Rodysill, J., Githiri, J., Russell, J., Foerster, V., Dommain, R.,
Rucina, S., Deocampo, D., Russell, J., Billingsley, A., Beck, C., Dorenbeck, G., Dullo, L., Feary,
D., Garello, D., Gromig, R., Johnson, T., Junginger, A., Karanja, M., Kimburi, E., Mbuthia, A.,
McCartney, T., McNulty, E., Muiruri, V., Nambiro, E., Negash, E. W., Njagi, D., Wilson, J. N.,
Rabideaux, N., Raub, T., Sier, M. J., Smith, P., Urban, J., Warren, M., Yadeta, M., Yost, C.,
Zinaye, B. 2016. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Inferring the Environmental
Context of Human Evolution from Eastern African Rift Lake Deposits. Scientific Drilling ,1-32.
1) DiMaggio, E. N., Campisano, C. J., Rowan, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A. L., Bibi, F., Lewis, M.
E., Souron, A., Garello, D., Werdelin, L., Reed, K., and Arrowsmith, J. R. 2015. Late Pliocene
fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar,
Ethiopia. Science, 347 (6228), 1355-1359.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
13) DiMaggio, E. N., Sarkawi, G., Furman, T., Garello, D., Campisano C. J., Arrowsmith R., Wynn, J.
G., Quade, J., and Feibel, C. S. (2018). Application of LA-ICP-MS to tephra correlation studies
in Afar, Ethiopia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 50(6).
12) Garello, D., Roman, D.C., Deino, A., Campisano C., and Arrowsmith R. (2017). Geochemical
characterization and correlations of upper Hadar Formation core and outcrop tephra: Northern
Awash Site, Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, 49(6).
11) Sier, M.J., Dupont Nivet, G., Deino, A., Kingston, J.D., Keller, B., Garello, D., Langereis, C.,
Cohen, A., BHB Science Team. (2017). Geochronology of the Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi
(BTB) Core, Kenya, of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). ESHE Ann.
Mtg. abstract, Leiden, Netherlands
10) DiMaggio, E., Arrowsmith R., Campisano C. and Garello, D. (2016). Trace element investigation of
tephras from the Ledi-Geraru paleontological site in Afar, Ethiopia. EOS Trans. AGU Fall
Meeting.
9) Garello, D., Deino, A., Campisano, C., Kingston, J., Arrowsmith, J. R. (2016). An update on the
Chemeron Formation Tephrochronology: Challenges in correlating the Baringo-Tugen Hills
 Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) Core tephra to outcrop tephra.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Denver CO. (poster)
8) Lazagabaster, I. A., Rowan, J., Garello, D. I., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J. R., and Reed, K. E.
(2016). Fossil Artiodactyla (Mammalia) from Markaytoli, a new Middle Pleistocene site in the
Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. SVP Ann. Mtg. w/prog., Salt Lake City, UT. (poster)
7) Smail, I. E., Rector, A. L., Garello, D. I., Locke, E. M., Campisano, C. J., Arrowsmith, J R., and
Reed, K. E. (2016). Pleistocene Primates and Rodentia from Markaytoli, Lower Awash Valley,
Ethiopia: Taphonomic and Paleoenvironmental Implications. SVP Ann. Mtg. w/prog., Salt Lake
City, UT. (poster)
6) Garello, D., Deino, A., Campisano, C., Kingston, J., Arrowsmith J R., and Hill, A. (2015).
Tephrochronology of the East African Baringo-Tugen Hills Cores: Hominin Sites and Paleolakes
Drilling Project (HSPDP). EOS Trans. AGU Fall Meeting,
5) Garello, D., Campisano, C. J., Wynn, J. G., Arrowsmith, J. R., and Deino, A. L. (2015).
Tephrochronology and depositional environments of the Hadar Formation from the northern
Awash cores of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP). Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs 47(7), 286.
4) Kingston, J. D., Deino, A. L., Hill, A., Campisano, C. J., Garello, D., Sier, M. J., Yost, C. L., Stone,
J. R., Cohen, A. S., and Billingsley, A. L. (2015). A Plio-Pleistocene drill core from the Baringo
Basin, Central Kenyan Rift Valley. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
47(7), 286.
3) Garello, D., Arrowsmith R., and Campisano C. (2014). Reconstructing rift-basin development and
depositional environments of the Hadar Formation (Afar, Ethiopia) from three dimensional
characterization of tephra marker beds. Tephra 2014: Maximizing the potential of tephra for
multidisciplinary science.
2) Garello, D., Arrowsmith, J. R., Campisano, C. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., and DiMaggio, E. N. (2013).
Depositional environment reconstruction from stratigraphic analysis of the Markay-toli rift basin,
Southern Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs
45.
1) Garello D., Montanez I., Barclay R., McElwain J., Byrd A., and DiMichele W. (2012). CO2-Forcing
of Carboniferous Climate Revealed by Fossil Cuticle and Paleosol Carbonate Reconstructions.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs., Charlotte NC.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
AGU- American Geophysical Union; GSA- Geological Society of America

REFERENCES
Ramon Arrowsmith Chris Campisano
Professor of Geology Associate Professor of Physical Anthropology
Arizona State University Arizona State University
School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Phone: 480-965-5081 (SHESC)
Email: ramon.arrowsmith@asu.edu Email: campisano@asu.edu

Kaye Reed
President’s Professor and Director of SHESC
Arizona State University
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
(SHESC)
Email: kaye.reed@asu.edu